A clandestine group has spent thousands of hours searching the Sonoran Desert for ... 100,000-square-mile desert for crested saguaros — the largest cactus in the US, which often grows over ...

“Nobody wants a two-inch cactus needle to go through them.” Many ecosystems evolved to live with wildfire, but the Sonoran Desert is not ... thousands of aerial images of replanted plots ...

The Sonoran Desert is one of the most instantly recognizable landscapes in the American West, as it's the only place in the world where you'll find the saguaro cactus. The plant has long served as ...

Stephanie Sy has more on what those trends mean for ecosystems in the Sonoran desert. An icon of the desert, the saguaro cactus ... they regularly take pictures of the flowers that bloom on ...

Visitors who arrive mid-February through mid-June will see an abundance of blooming cactus just begging for ... colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's cinnamon-red buttes, and ...

this desert-bound city boasts a fascinating food scene all its own. The shady portico of San Xavier del Bac Mission, a whitewashed oasis set against the cactus-studded mountains of the Sonoran ...

Each year in the late spring, white blossoms emerge in the desert, crowning the majestic saguaros that grow in the Sonoran Desert ... Arizona has about 51 native cactus species, but the saguaro ...

Giant Saguaros, an icon of the southwest. This majestic cactus is found only in the Sonoran Desert. But over the last five years, people are noticing more and more of them are leaning ...

PHOENIX — The Sonoran Desert is clearly distinct by its dry ... Athena, better known as "Cactus Kelly," is a long-time lover of nature. “My dad gave me a book when I was 9 years old about ...

The hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii ... more articles like this one about gardening in Tucson and the Sonoran Desert, visit my collection of articles or subscribe to the Tucson Garden ...